different between convincing vs wordly
convincing
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k?n?v?ns??/
Adjective
convincing (comparative more convincing, superlative most convincing)
- Effective as proof or evidence.
- Our convincing evidence was sufficient in the end to win the trial.
- November 17 2012, BBC Sport: Arsenal 5-2 Tottenham [1]
- While they have still only suffered one home defeat by Spurs in 19 years, this was not as convincing a victory as the scoreline suggests.
Derived terms
- convincingly
- convincingness
- clear and convincing evidence
Translations
Verb
convincing
- present participle of convince
Noun
convincing (countable and uncountable, plural convincings)
- The process by which somebody is convinced.
- 2002, Richard L. Epstein, Critical Thinking (page 2)
- Convincings depend on someone trying to do the convincing and someone who is supposed to be convinced.
- 2002, Richard L. Epstein, Critical Thinking (page 2)
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wordly
English
Etymology
From word +? -ly. Compare Dutch woordelijk, German wörtlich.
Adjective
wordly (comparative more wordly, superlative most wordly)
- (rare) Of, relating to, or resembling a word; verbal.
- 1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248:
- But I feel an impulse to scribble wordly words, to stand in a silk hat beside the statue of Liberty and gaze out upon the Atlantic with a Carlylian pensiveness.
- 1970, Benjamin Charles Milner, Calvin's Doctrine of the Church - Page 105:
- "The reality of the wordly words as the word of God is not pneumatologically grounded by Calvin — neither is the church proclaimed word in virtue of its power of divine ordinance a word of God's Spirit imparted for all times, nor is it made more and more God's word through the Holy Spirit—[...]
- 1993, William H. Poteat, James M. Nickell, James W. Stines, The Primacy of Persons and the Language of Culture: Essays:
- For in speaking of "syntax," I have employed a concept that is used about the use of words. I have, in other words, "talked" about the nonverbal in a "wordly" way.
- 2008, Manuel Dries, Nietzsche on Time and History - Page 157:
- We notice here a shift from 'literal' in a wordly sense (cf. the German wörtlich), pertaining to written words as such, to a descriptive sense, pertaining to how a text (or the world) is understood.
- 1921, Ben Hecht, Erik Dorn - Page 248:
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- worldy
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